Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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Upon Maternal Solicitude in Rhynchota and other Nonsocial Insects
577
The Psychical Faculties of Ants and some other Insects by A Forel
587
Musk Oxen in Captivity by Jul Schiött
601
Fig 1 Musk ox in Copenhagen 3 years old Fig 2 Yak
606
Frozen Mammoth in Siberia by O F Herz
611
Spouting and Movements of Whales by E C Racovitza
627
Problems Arising from Variations in the Development of Skull and Brains
647
The Antiquity of the Lion in Greece by Dr A B Meyer
661
The Excavations at Abusir Egypt by Prof Dr A Wiedemann
669
The Ancient Hittites by Dr Leopold Messerschmidt
679
Fig 1 Divinity embracing a king or priest Boghazkeu
692
Central American Hieroglyphic Writing by Cyrus Thomas
705
Traces of Aboriginal Operations in an Iron Mine near Leslie Mo by W
723
Lhasa and Central Tibet by G Ts Tsybikoff
727
A Journey of Geographical and Archæological Exploration in Chinese Tur
747
Fig 1 Phototheodolite view of Kilik Pass Fig 2 Icy ranges
754
Fig 5 Glaciers at head of Kash River Fig 6 Eroded ranges
762
Fig 9 Sandburied ancient house Fig 10 Covering tablets
768
From the Somali Coast through Ethiopia to the Sudan by Oscar Neumann
775
Primeval Japanese by Capt F Brinkley
793
The Korean Language by Homer B Hulbert
805
The Republic of Panama by Prof William H Burr
811
Fig 1 One of the hospital buildings on the hill back of Panama
820
The Reclamation of the West by F H Newell
827
Fig 1 An abandoned house on an unirrigated plain Fig 2
838
Robert Henry Thurston by W J Durand
843
Theodore Mommsen by Emil Reich
851

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